Thursday, Jan 07, 2010
Journalism's independence for sale
The Huffington Post: I'm canceling the Washington Post_b_412535.html
Bemoans the decline of the Washington Post from the days of Woodward and Berstein, who blew the lid off the Watergate cover-up. Says it was still a great newspaper 20 years ago but since then it has become the opposite of a democratic beacon - close ties with the powerful; censorship; gung-ho editorials for the invasion of Iraq; a politically correct, incestuous and opaque hiring regimen favouring supplicants and incompetents. A recent Guardian article also claimed the WP was compromising its independence to resue its finances -'news' articles by well-funded advocacy groups paying to have their 'findings' published (but not attributed to their source) and selling to lobbyists access to WP reporters in 'informal salons'. As newspapers become economically unviable are they becoming whores?
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1. icarus said...
Link didn't work. Try http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-crawford/im canceling-the-washingt_b_412535.html
2. James7 said...
Yes, newspapers and Bill Clinton's girlfriends, pretty much one and the same.
3. icarus said...
The Guardian story is at http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/04/washington-post-fiscal-times-peterson
4. the number cruncher said...
Arianna Huffington is a great woman - I read her stuff daily - HPCers may be interested in her first book club pick of the year, I have just ordered my copy
: My first HuffPost Book Club selection of 2010 is Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite, a gripping book that explains why it's been so hard to bring about any real change in America. Fingers have been pointed at everything from gerrymandering to partisan polarization to the misuse of the filibuster. But, according to Wendel, the real problem is much deeper and more disturbing: a "transnational" class of elites that has rigged the system so they can "institutionalize their subversion of it." A member of this shadow elite is Robert Rubin, on full display right now in Newsweek, penning an essay on "Getting the Economy Back on Track" while failing to explain or acknowledge -- let alone apologize for -- the key role he played in getting the economy off track in the first place
5. markj69 str05 said...
Surely not suggesting a NWO!
Don't worry, any organization/gov'ning body will soon put pay to that sort of thing, rather than aiding the process in order to gain personal 'life membership' of such a horific club.
Have faith, our politicians only have the intrests of the country, and Her majesty's subjects in mind. (No duck house moats here!).
6. markj69 str05 said...
horrific